Lot 151
  • 151

Chapman, George

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Chapman, George
  • Caesar and Pompey: A Roman Tragedy, declaring their Warres. Out of whose events is evicted this Proposition. Only a just man is a freeman. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1631
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4to (7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.; 180 x 135 mm). Woodcut headpieces and decorative initial; title and last leaf somewhat browned, dampstain in lower portion of later quires, tiny marginal rust holes in a few leaves, without the initial blank leaf. Modern dark-brown morocco gilt, by Walters.

Provenance

Marshall Clifford Lefferts (gilt-stamped leather bookplate) — Henry William Poor (gilt-stamped leather bookplate) — Walter Thomas Wallace (engraved armorial bookplate, Anderson, 22 March 1920, lot 217). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1976

Literature

STC 4993; Greg 444(A1*); Pforzheimer 146

Condition

title and last leaf somewhat browned, dampstain in lower portion of later quires, tiny marginal rust holes in a few leaves, without the initial blank leaf.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue, second state of the title.